Which airlines of *A does not expire miles fast?
Oct 4, 2013, 10:42 am
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Which airlines of *A does not expire miles fast?
Hi! I am looking for a *A airlines that do not expire miles as long as one keeps accumulating miles with them. I travel frequently with Turkish airlines but every year, they expire some miles that were not used. How about Lufthansa or United?
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Oct 4, 2013, 11:14 am
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Which airlines of *A does not expire miles fast?
Air Canada doesn't expire as long as you have 1 activity per year on your account. I believe Aegean has a similar policy plus you can get *A Gold with 25K miles
Oct 4, 2013, 12:08 pm
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Soo U could get *A gold after 2RT's on C class
Oct 4, 2013, 12:11 pm
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A3 *Gold requires 19,000 status miles starting from zero, assuming that you get the standard 1,000 welcome miles and earn everything within a year before the status miles start to expire.
Oct 4, 2013, 1:30 pm
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Which airlines of *A does not expire miles fast?
Assuming you are talking about the miles redeemable for awards, and not status qualifying miles.
If that's the case, UA is actually more generous than AC, as all mileage is good until used, as long as you earn or redeem a mile once every 18 months. Even if you don't fly much, they make it pretty easy, as there are plenty of (low cost) ways to earn miles, such as buying a single song on iTunes (or buy from another merchant) going through their online shopping portal (MP shopping). There are also ways to redeem easily, like for magazine/newspaper subscriptions, donations, etc. However, not sure where the OP is based, or how many of these might apply outside if the US.
As for qualifying miles, US, UA and AC all expire at the end of the calendar year, so if you haven't earned status by Dec. 31, that counter resets on Jan. 1. But that doesn't have an affect on any miles available for redemption. Not sure if some of the other EU-based programs might be different.
If that's the case, UA is actually more generous than AC, as all mileage is good until used, as long as you earn or redeem a mile once every 18 months. Even if you don't fly much, they make it pretty easy, as there are plenty of (low cost) ways to earn miles, such as buying a single song on iTunes (or buy from another merchant) going through their online shopping portal (MP shopping). There are also ways to redeem easily, like for magazine/newspaper subscriptions, donations, etc. However, not sure where the OP is based, or how many of these might apply outside if the US.
As for qualifying miles, US, UA and AC all expire at the end of the calendar year, so if you haven't earned status by Dec. 31, that counter resets on Jan. 1. But that doesn't have an affect on any miles available for redemption. Not sure if some of the other EU-based programs might be different.